<div dir="ltr">Dear Laura<div><br></div><div>The Kanyara and Mantharta language groups spoken between the Gascoyne and Ashburton rivers in Western Australia distinguish between three nominal classes for possession:</div><div><br></div><div>1. alienably possessed nouns where the possessor is encoded by a dative/possessive inflected noun or pronoun (that also takes a case marker in agreement with the case of the possessee), e.g. Jiwarli thuthu-ngka nhurra-mpa-la dog-loc 2sg-dat-loc 'with your dog'</div><div><br></div><div>2. kinship nouns where the possessor is encoded by a word-forming suffix added directly to the possessee, e.g. Jiwarli -ju 1sgposs, -ngku 2sgposs. These forms are then marked for case by a following suffix, e.g. kunyjan-ju-ra older.sister-1sgposs-loc 'with my older sister'</div><div><br></div><div>3. body-part nouns where the possessor is in apposition with the possessee noun and takes the same case form as the possessee, e.g. ngatha-la mara-ngka 1sg-loc hand-loc 'with my hand'</div><div><br></div><div>Classes 2 and 3 seem to illustrate the "split in inalienable possession" that you are looking for. The details and examples can be found in my draft Matharta grammar that is available on Academia.edu.</div><div><br></div><div>Best wishes</div><div>Peter</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 9 Oct 2019 at 19:34, ARNOLD Laura <<a href="mailto:Laura.Arnold@ed.ac.uk">Laura.Arnold@ed.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>I’m investigating a feature that I’m calling ‘differential inalienable marking’. Differential inalienable marking is found in some languages with a morphosyntactic alienability distinction in adnominal possessive constructions. In ‘inalienable’ constructions
(i.e., those constructions that are more closely associated with expressing inalienable relationships between the possessor and possessee, such as body parts and kin terms), these languages make a further morphological or morphosyntactic distinction – for
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<div>This distinction may be semantically conditioned – for example, kin terms may be marked with one paradigm, body parts another. Below is an example from Ambai (Austronesian), in which a 3sg possessor is predictably marked on kin terms with the suffix
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<div>(1) Ambai (Silzer 1983: 88-9)</div>
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<div>(a) ina<b>-na</b></div>
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<div>Alternatively, the distinction may be lexically specified. In Kula (Timor-Alor-Pantar), the possessor is marked on most body parts and kin terms with one paradigm; however, there is a subset of body parts which are unpredictably marked with a different
paradigm. This is exemplified in (2): a 1st person exclusive possessor is marked on the body part
<i>nikwa</i> ‘eye’ with the prefix <i>ng-</i>, but on the body part <i>kárik</i> ‘finger’ with
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<div>(2) Kula (Williams 2017: 226)<br>
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<div>(a) <b>ng</b>-nikwa</div>
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<div>Note that I am <b>not </b>counting either phonologically predictable allomorphy or free variation as differential inalienable marking.
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<div>This feature is attested in several languages spoken in east Indonesia. Has anyone come across differential inalienable marking elsewhere in the world? (As you can see from the examples, the distinction may be very subtle…)<br>
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<div>With best wishes from Edinburgh,<br>
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<div>Laura<br>
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